The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714)

Author
Susanna Centlivre
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
Performance Medium
Spoken Drama
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£30,861 9s £5,910 10s (19.2%) £24,950 19s (80.8%)
1732 - 1809
£30,861 9s - (100%) £5,910 10s (19.2%) £24,950 19s (80.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
207 60 147
1732 - 1809
207 60 147
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
30 Mar 1769 Covent Garden The Wonder, Midas No No No £131 6s 6d N/A N/A
08 Apr 1769 Covent Garden The Wonder, The Devil to Pay, The Florist, Allemand, Double Hornpipe, Minuet, New Tripple Hornpipe, The Garland, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £173 11s N/A N/A
24 Apr 1769 Drury Lane The Wonder, Lethe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Nov 1769 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Padlock, New Pantomime Dance No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Dec 1769 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Padlock Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
24 Jan 1770 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Register Office No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1770 Covent Garden The Wonder, Thomas and Sally, Minuet, The Wapping Landlady, Allemande, Comic Dance, Double Hornpipe, Hornpipe, Serious Dance, The Old Man Metamorphosed No No Yes £157 18s N/A N/A
04 Dec 1770 Drury Lane The Wonder, Daphne and Amintor No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Dec 1770 Drury Lane The Wonder, Daphne and Amintor No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Dec 1771 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Mayor of Garratt No No No £271 2s 6d 61% N/A
23 Mar 1772 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Lyar, The Sailors' Revels No No No £265 18s 57% N/A
25 Apr 1772 Covent Garden The Wonder, The Author, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £120 1s 6d 39% N/A
09 May 1772 Drury Lane The Wonder, A Trip to Scotland, Minuet No No Yes £288 11s 65% N/A
15 Dec 1772 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Register Office, Comic Dance No No No £252 16s 66% N/A
27 May 1773 Drury Lane The Wonder, Miss in Her Teens, The Irish Fair No No Yes £292 14s 6d 47% N/A
13 Jan 1774 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Anatomist No No No £255 12s 6d 53% N/A
21 Jan 1774 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Lyar Yes No No £246 18s 6d 59% N/A
14 Feb 1774 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Note of Hand Yes No No £263 9s 6d 59% N/A
18 Jan 1775 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Cobler No No No £266 14s 6d N/A N/A
20 Jan 1775 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Lottery Yes No No £219 13s N/A N/A
25 Jan 1775 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Deuce Is in Him No Yes No £266 11s N/A N/A
25 May 1775 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Rival Candidates No No Yes £309 10s 6d N/A N/A
20 Oct 1775 Covent Garden The Wonder, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
30 Dec 1775 Covent Garden The Wonder, Prometheus No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1776 Covent Garden The Wonder, St Patrick's Day, The Humours of the Newmarket Races, The Merry Sailors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 May 1776 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Waterman No No No £260 7s N/A N/A
10 Jun 1776 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Waterman, The Grand Garland Dance No No Yes £311 12s 6d N/A N/A
18 Dec 1776 Drury Lane The Wonder, Selima and Azor, The Double Festival No Yes No £249 12s 6d 70% N/A
11 Dec 1777 Drury Lane The Wonder, A Christmas Tale No No No £96 2s 6d 34% N/A
25 Apr 1778 Covent Garden The Wonder, Poor Vulcan, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £150 18s 6d 50% N/A
26 Jan 1779 Covent Garden The Wonder, The Touchstone No No No Unknown N/A N/A
23 Nov 1779 Covent Garden The Wonder, The Commissary, The Dockyard No No No £64 1s 6d 25% N/A
10 Nov 1780 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Padlock No No No £131 11s 6d 47% N/A
25 Jan 1781 Covent Garden The Wonder, Harlequin Free Mason No No No £204 18s 69% N/A
10 Feb 1781 Drury Lane The Wonder, Robinson Crusoe No No No £187 16s 54% N/A
09 May 1781 Drury Lane The Wonder, Comus, The Irish Fair, Kate of Aberdeen, Bessy Bell Mary Gray No No Yes £170 17s 6d 43% N/A
07 Nov 1781 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Gentle Shepherd No No No £158 5s 62% N/A
17 Nov 1781 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Divorce, The Frenchman in the Dairy No No No £125 4s 6d 43% N/A
11 Jan 1782 Covent Garden The Wonder, The Choice of Harlequin No No No £224 6s 59% N/A
29 Apr 1782 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Maid of the Oaks, Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £283 4s 23% N/A
10 Jan 1783 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Triumph of Mirth No No No £161 3s 45% N/A
09 May 1783 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Gentle Shepherd, The Butterfly No No Yes £233 19s 29% N/A
20 Nov 1783 Drury Lane Wonder, The Camp No No No £110 12s 29% N/A
03 Dec 1783 Drury Lane The Wonder, Fortunatus No No No £184 9s 6d 52% N/A
11 Feb 1784 Drury Lane The Wonder, Harlequin Junior No No No £127 16s 32% N/A
30 Mar 1784 Drury Lane The Wonder, A Fete, High Life below Stairs, Poor Thomas Day, Scotch Reel, Time has not thinned my flowing Hair, Tally-ho!, The Sportmen's Return No No Yes £268 19s 6d 47% N/A
27 May 1784 Drury Lane The Wonder, The Irish Widow, Hornpipe No No Yes £31 8s N/A N/A
22 Nov 1784 Drury Lane The Wonder, Arthur and Emmeline No No No £148 11s N/A N/A
03 Dec 1784 Covent Garden The Wonder, The Poor Soldier No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Apr 1785 Drury Lane The Wonder, Rosina, Awake Aeolean Lyre No No Yes £165 19s N/A N/A
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